Kurt Friedrich Gödel

Kurt Friedrich Gödel (German: Kurt Friedrich Gödel, April 28, 1906 - January 14, 1978), an American mathematician, logician and philosopher born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, was a member of the Vienna Circle (Vienna Group). Gödel is one of the greatest logicians of the twentieth century. His most outstanding contribution is the relative consistency proof of Gödel's incompleteness theorem and the continuum hypothesis. Gödel was born in Brno, Czech Republic (formerly Austria-Hungary) in 1906. He graduated from the University of Vienna. He immigrated to the United States in 1940 and worked at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton until his retirement in 1976. Gödel died in Princeton, New Jersey, in 1978.